- Institution/s: Universidad de Valladolid, Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
- Project: Diccionario Terminológico de Genética (Eurogene)
- Identification number: 138
- Subdomains: Studies of chromatin, Studies of DNA, Studies of RNA, Techniques
- Author/s: Carmen CUÉLLAR LÁZARO, Cristina ADRADA RAFAEL, Laura SANJUÁN LANCHO, Lucia UDRESCU
- Creation / modification date: 28-02-2014
- Term: pericentric inversion
- Gramatical category: s
- Definition: A reversal of a segment of the chromosome that involves the centromeric region.
- Context: In the following example a pericentric inversion generates a metacentric chromosome from an acrocentric chromosome.
- Weighting mark: nor
- Sources:
- Term: EMERY, A.E.H. y MUELLER, R.F. (1992) Elements of Medical Genetics, Churchill Livingstone: New York. 8th Edition.
- Definition: McCLEAN, P. (1997): Variation in chromosome structure. [En línea]. http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~mcclean/plsc431/chromstruct/chrmo3.htm [última consulta: 18/12/2013]
- Context: McCLEAN, P. (1997): Variation in chromosome structure. [En línea]. http://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/~mcclean/plsc431/chromstruct/chrmo3.htm [última consulta: 18/12/2013]
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